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PatentsSearcher : A Novel Portal to Search and Explore Patents

PatentsSearcher : A Novel Portal to Search and Explore Patents. Vagelis Hristidis , Florida International University, Miami Eduardo Ruiz, Florida International University , Miami Alejandro Hernández, Florida International University , Miami

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PatentsSearcher : A Novel Portal to Search and Explore Patents

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  1. PatentsSearcher: A Novel Portal to Search and Explore Patents VagelisHristidis, Florida International University, Miami Eduardo Ruiz, Florida International University , Miami Alejandro Hernández, Florida International University , Miami Fernando Farfán, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ramakrishna Varadarajan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  2. Key factors in patents search system Coverage: what patent and non-patent (e.g., legal state information) databases are included, from what countries or unions, and how up-to-date the data is. Discovery and ranking: how well does the system locate relevant patents or applications, and how these are ranked. Other features and analytics: For instance, Delphion provides an interface to visually view the references among the patents of a result, or cluster the patents. PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University

  3. Ranking in Existing Patents Search Systems PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University • By Date (USPTO) • Traditional IR: tf-idf • Latent Semantic Analysis Limitation: View patent as a generic document. Special properties of patents collection not fully exploited

  4. Special Properties of Patents PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University Organized into classes and subclasses. Have links to other patents and external publications. Organized into various sections (abstract, claims, description and images). Use specific legal wording in the claims section. Patent claims have references to other claims, that is, claims can be viewed as a graph.

  5. Discovery and Ranking in PatentsSearcher – Query Module PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University

  6. Query- and Domain-Specific Query Expansion Module PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University • Inputs list of keywords • Outputs set of synonymous or tightly relevant keywords or phrases • E.g., query {web ranking} is expanded as {(web, 1.0), (ranking, 1.0), (documents, 0.3), (pages, 0.25), (search,0.22)}. • For each relevant word, a weight is assigned denoting its semantic distance to the source keyword, for the specific query. • Query Context is defined using • Result patents • relevant publications • Web documents • Use adaptation of Rocchio work on pseudo-relevance feedback.

  7. Domain-specific Ranking Factors Module PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University Patents are organized into classes and subclasses: Increased relevance to patents of same class. If a class has many results then it becomes important for query and its patents may be more relevant. Patents have links to external publication and to other patents: A patent with many query-specific citations is better than a patent with few citations. Patents organized into various sections (abstract, claims, description and images): A word in abstract better than in description Patents use specific legal wording in the claims section. Claims can be viewed as a graph: If two query words appear in two linked claims is better than if they appear on two disconnected claims.

  8. Other Features of PatentsSearcher PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University

  9. Advanced Query Interface PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University In addition to patents, user may search for the most relevant Classes, Assignees or Inventors Capability to view very recent, un-indexed patents or applications

  10. Results Presentation and Navigation PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University Re-sort results by Date, Title, and so on Filter results by class, assignee, and inventor Export results to Excel, PDF, or concatenated PDF Preview first three pages of patent as tooltip (beta testing phase)

  11. Patent Cart PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University A patent added to the cart by clicking the shopping cart icon next to it. User can then add some notes for each item in cart Export the information in the cart in Excel or PDF format.

  12. Thank you! PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University NSF IIS-0811922 Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship

  13. Overall PatentsSearcher Architecture PatentsSearcher.com - Florida International University

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